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Sargutz
Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2025
Bueno y segun lo descrito en la publicación
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2025
Such a versatile tool!
M Burch
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2024
love the starter kit
عبد الرحمن
Reviewed in the United Arab Emirates on November 12, 2024
صغير جدا لونه غير لا يتفاعل
MAURICIO
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2024
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John Romesburg
Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2024
Fun little box to start with..
Michael
Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2023
We are making music pack via makecode platform. It's so easy to build a project via drag and play. There are plenty demos can refter to. I love this kit, it is funny.
Dad, the engineer
Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2022
Many people have that person in their extended acquaintance sphere that's the tech+IoT+home automation+whatever SME. Well, I'm one of those people - and I get asked a lot of questions. One that frequently comes up from parents, is what type of entry-level IoT experience would be appropriate for their child(ren). For years, I told them that they could get an Arduino, with one of those sets of dozens of LEDs, sensors, servos, etc. I figured that the ubiquity of Arduinos made them easy to research, and therefore a good "starter" microcontroller.Oops.Over time, I realized that my reasoning was wrong. Sure, there's a huge ecosystem for Arduinos, but it's too overwhelming for a novice. Dealing with the controller's IDE, the hardware that you attach, and possibly the circuitry that you need to tie it together (like the occasional resistor here or there for LEDs) makes for too many moving pieces for people that aren't familiar with any of the concepts in the first place. That's where the GeeekPi Micro:bit V2 Go Kit Original Microbit V2 Starter Kit comes in.The Micro:bit isn't extensible, but it's fairly capable out of the box. To define terms, I mean that the Micro:bit can be made to "do" something interactive in a couple minutes. Really, to anyone starting out with this hobby, the faster you are performing actions and reading inputs, the better. To that end, Micro:bit has a flowchart-y/UML-ish way of no-code board control (Blocks). If you've ever created a recipe in IFTTT, this is similar. Blocks is a dead-end, though... which is why it's great that you can use their cut-down version of Python. Once you've outgrown the Micro:bit, you can move on to the Raspberry Pi Pico, and much of what you've learned about Python will apply to the new platform, too. Recommended (for beginners)
T. Fisher
Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2022
I was looking for a good STEM stocking stuffer this year for kids, so I gave this a shot -Out of box experience:Put the batteries in and it introduces itself to you! There's a built-in animation that changes to a game of Snake played by tilting the board. I thought that was cute.Ease of Access:You can get started on the coding website without creating an account. I like that. The basic code editor uses drag and drop blocks and was easy to learn (I sat a non-IT friend down in front of it with no instructions and he was able to put a simple program together using both buttons and the shake sensor in under 10 minutes).The Problems:The instructions say you can use Bluetooth. I was able to pair it but it didn't work beyond that. The target audience isn't going to have the troubleshooting skills to deal with that.The code editor is web based and has a direct download feature that worked exactly once. The failure mode is annoying - it tries to connect to the board for about 3 minutes before giving up and providing the hex file as a download.The programs are huge! The hex files I was downloading with some basic functions were 1.3mb, the board downloads at 88kbps which is terribly slow.Overall, this would be a great gift for a ten-year-old. It's aimed at kids 7-14 years old. As someone who got into digital electronics around 7 years old, I think 7-10 years this would've been really fun, after that I would've gotten frustrated with the limitations pretty quickly. It is a good starting point for what microcontrollers are and a good path to something more complex like an Arduino, MSP-430 or Raspberry Pi.
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